(1) A study published in Nature Communications found that fathers with a diet deficient in folate (found in greens such as spinach, sprouts and broccoli) were more likely to have offspring with abnormalities of the head, face and sternum (breastbone) and a buildup of fluid on the brain.
(2) Trace elements (Cd, Cu, Hg, Pb, Se, Zn) were measured in nine organs (liver, kidney, breast muscle, lungs, breastbone, stomach, gizzard, spleen, feathers) of several specimens of Greater Flamingos (Phaenicopterus ruber (Pallas] and Little Egrets (Egretta garzetta (L.] from the Camargue, in the Rhône river delta.
(3) Each word,” he later confessed, “was chipped from the breastbone.” On publication, Tarka the Otter was a resounding success.
(4) In both species we found the highest levels in liver and kidney, with the exception of lead, the highest levels of which were found in breastbone and feathers.
(5) An image of two penguins with heads bent together to create a loveheart silhouette was developed, as I turned the pages, into the template for a printed dress with a line of symmetry running down the breastbone.
(6) A young internist held a Siamese cat as Thiele felt for its breastbone and ribs, and conjured up the anatomy he'd learned in a college dissection class.
Thymus
Definition:
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, the thymus gland.
(n.) The thymus gland.
Example Sentences:
(1) Immunocompetence was also evident when the cells from thymectomized donors were first incubated with thymus extract for 1 hr and subsequently tested for reactivity.
(2) Release of 51Cr was apparently a function of immune thymus-derived lymphocytes (T cells) because it was abrogated by prior incubation of spleen cells with anti-thymus antiserum and complement but was undiminished by passage of spleen cells through nylon-wool columns.
(3) In 14 of the patients the imaging results were checked against the histological findings of a subsequent thymectomy, which revealed four thymomas and (with the exception of one normal thymus) hyperplastic changes in all the others.
(4) The bursa of Fabricius, thymus glands and spleen of chickens were also shown to express mRNA coding for ANP.
(5) The resulting cortexolone-Sepharose absorbed easily the cytosolic chick thymus glucocorticoid receptor.
(6) Thymus and spleen cells from such hypogammaglobulinaemic chickens were extracted with non-ionic detergents, acid urea, or combinations of urea and detergent, and the extracts were analysed for Ig by the inhibition assay.
(7) We previously found that transfected TNP-specific B cells undergo both Ca2+ signaling and desensitization upon interaction with the thymus-dependent Ag TNP-OVA.
(8) Tryptase also efficiently hydrolyzed histone H1 from rat thymus.
(9) However, the reactions of the thymus and spleen were different in this experiment, and further studies are necessary to evaluate the mechanism of these immune reactions.
(10) Although T cell tolerance to self antigens is primarily a reflection of clonal deletion in the thymus, recent evidence suggests that mature T cells are subject to negative regulation in the post-thymic environment: Extrathymic tolerance is the result of clonal anergy in some studies and T cell deletion in others.
(11) Identification of terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase (TdT) positive cells in sites other than bone marrow, thymus, lymph nodes and peripheral blood is indicative of a TdT positive lymphoproliferative disease.
(12) Proliferative and cytollytical activity of lymphocytes was compared in lymphocyte alloimmunization of the spleen and intact thymus.
(13) We present a case of carcinoid heart disease and cardiac metastases discovered during a myocardial infarction in a 64 years-old woman who was treated for carcinod of the thymus.
(14) Skin grafts from Xenopus isogeneic to the donors of the MHC-incompatible larval and adult thymus implants are always tolerated by Tx hosts.
(15) The possibility that mammalian DNA topoisomerase II is an intracellular target which mediates drug-induced DNA breaks is supported by the following studies using 4'-(9-acridinylamino)methane-sulfon-m-anisidide (m-AMSA): (a) a single m-AMSA-dependent DNA cleavage activity copurified with calf thymus DNA topoisomerase II activity at all chromatographic steps of the enzyme purification; (b) m-AMSA-induced DNA cleavage by this purified activity resulted in the covalent attachment of protein to the 5'-ends of the DNA via a tyrosyl phosphate bond.
(16) The heterotransplantation of minced human fetal pituitaries into adult thymus-aplastic nude mice is described.
(17) The tryptic cores from H-2K and H-2D are regularly distinguishable from the thymus-leukemia antigens (TLA) by gel electrophoresis in one dimension.
(18) Each fraction was injected with either normal bone marrow cells or normal thymus cells with antigen into 650-R-irradiated hosts.
(19) mg and showed an incidence of 57% metastases to regional popliteal nodes and 5% metastases to thymus.
(20) Mouse thymus cells, educated to poly(tyrosyl,glutamyl)-polyDLalanyl--polylysyl [(T,G)-A--L], release an antigen-specific factor on brief culture in vitro.